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Letter "I" » imperative
«While it's important to win, it's imperative to compete.»
«The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.»
Author: Eugene J. McCarthy
(Senator)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
elders, imperative, primitive, senate, territorial, the Senate, tribe
«Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause /it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
| Keywords:
advanced, Arts and, clinging, conservatives, imperative, moral principle, shaken, sold-out, subversion, subversions
«The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.»
Author: Margot Fonteyn
(Dancer)
| About:
Self-interest,
Work
| Keywords:
disastrous, imperative, imperatives, seriously, The Second
«When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
deceiving, fashionable, hysteria, imperative, imperatives, join us, madmen, pragmatic, thin, whine
«Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, Foster, imperative, novelties, offered, primitive, respect to, taboo, taboos, technological, unconditionally, unquestionable, Western
«War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
conscientious, conviction, honorable, imperative, imperatives, justifiable, nation, national, obtained, sacrifice, The Sacrifice, welfare
«The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
guide, imperative, imperatives, Intellectual honesty, motive, root, the matter
«This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Anxiety,
Happiness,
Peace,
Spirit
| Keywords:
anxiety, avow, avowed, basis, bear upon, bear witness, establish, firm, imperative, imperatives, more and more, plagued, Plague The, plaguing, unremitting, witness
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